Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-21
GAS AND OIL.
A CURIOUS INCIDENT OF PsY-
CHRoMETRIC DIvINATIoN.
The Man Who Predicted the Open
ing of the Gas and Oil Fields and
Located the Oil and Gas Belts
in ohio-PrOphecies Curl
ously Fulfilled.

There is legend that the first dis
covery of petroleum in Pennsylvania
was made by man who saw 1t in
dream or trance. However true this
may be, it is fact that the Ohio oil
and gas fields were psychrOmetrically
located years before the first well was
sunk, and that when oil was discovered
it was found precisely where the mys-
tic power of the psychrometrist located
it.
Some eighteen years ago gentleman
then operating in oil in Pennsylvania,
but now resident of Cleveland, formed
the acquaintance of a man who pos
sessed the abnormal power of clairvOy-
ance to an astonishing degree, although
he made no public profession or exhibit
ton of it. His feats are seeing events
happening at distance and of things
deeply hidden from ordinary observa-
ton were remarkable to those who had
knowledge of them. He was at that
time locating oil wells in Pennsylvania.
One day he said to the gentleman above
alluded to:
"Some day this oil field will be ex-
hausted, but there is another greater
than this that will be opened up.n
"Where is that?" asked the gentle
man.
"In Ohio. There is the greatest oil
field in the country. can show where
there are rivers of oil underlying
Ohio"
Turning to a map on the wall he ran
his finger over the northern part of the
State from east to west and said:
"There is the oil we'll of the future"
The gentleman said he guessed there
could be no oil there, and the subject
was dismissed and for the time forgot
ten.
Fifteen years after, that is some three
years ago, the same gentleman, now a
resident of Cleveland, was visited by
his friend, the Pennsylvania prognosti-
Gator, on a matter of business, and the
talk turned upon oil and gas.
"You remember" said the man,
"what said to you years ago about the
oil and gas fields of Ohio?"
The gentleman said he remembered
it, but no gas or oil had ever been dis
covered in Ohio.
"There will be-" said the psychro-
metrist, "withn two years, and the
great field told you of will be opened
up. 1t is there just as told you. 1
can show you just where oil will be
first found, where gas will be found and
where the best oil and gas fields of Ohio
are located"
A map was produced and the psy-
chrometrist taking pencil, after few
moments of deep thought, placed the
point a few miles south of Lima, in
Allen county.
"There," he said, "there is where the
first great oil field of Ohio will be
opened up. There is where oil will be
found in abundance"
"Where else?n
"There," said the man, with the
point of his pencil upon the part of
Wood county about Bowling Green,
"there is more oil there than in Allen
county," At this time no wells had
been sunk at either place, and there
was no thought that any oil could be
found there. Indeed, the scientists of
the State geological survey had de-
clared that no oil in paying quantities
would ever be found in the State of
Ohio. And yet in less than ten years
after that time oil was found in these
precise localities and the great oil fields
of Ohio began to be opened up. The
gentleman in question visited both To-
calities and tried to interest capitalists
into forminga company and leasing
lands, but without success, and shortly
afterwards the lands were leased by
other parties.
This gentleman has in his possession
a paper upon which the psychrometrist
indicated at that time where the oil and
gas fields of Ohio would be found. The
predictions were made, as already in
dicated, before any wells had been
sunk or before public attention was
directed to the probability that any
oil existed in the State ofOhio at all.
The writer, having seen the paper, can
testify that in every case where oil and
gas have been found in Ohio, they
have been found precisely in the loca-
tions indicated in this paper. 1t may
be said that if the whole of the prog
nostication is as reliable as that part
which has already been fulfilled, the
development of the gas and oil indus
tries in Ohio are only in their infancy,
and that only small part of the whole
field has yet been touched.
ReneWs her Youth.